Intelligent-network solutions provider Sandvine today launched the latest version of Fairshare Traffic Management, a turnkey product for mobile congestion management and analytics.
Sandvine says Fairshare maximizes users' quality of experience and extends the life of network infrastructure investment. Version 4.0 introduces a new, dynamic control system which measures the achieved network quality and acts to maximize it.
The latest version of Fairshare Traffic Management interoperates with third-party vendors to offer what Sandvine calls “mobility-awareness." True mobility-awareness can accurately identify a moving subscriber’s cell location, dynamically evaluate the congestion level of the cell and apply traffic management policies in real-time, in order to alleviate any congestion. Sandvine says this differs from competing products which can identify the initial location where the mobile subscriber’s device connected, but not subsequent network locations to which the subscriber has moved.
Sandvine’s Fairshare Traffic Management 4.0 for mobile enables: sector-based congestion management based on dynamic congestion detection capabilities; fair-use network policies; real-time network location-based policies such as charging, advertising and communications; support for location-based pricing for mobile data to create bundled and tiered services that match subscriber usage; and location- aware network analytics and reporting that provide visibility of the impact of congestion management policies and support proactive network-capacity planning.
“Our latest version of Fairshare Traffic Management brings a powerful and dynamic congestion control system that works in concert with our policy decision and enforcement capabilities," said Don Bowman, CTO, Sandvine. “Operators can cost-effectively manage their mobile networks to deliver optimal performance without resorting to crude approximations such as daily or hourly network-wide traffic management policies."
Sandvine’s Fairshare Traffic Management was deployed in more than 50 service provider networks worldwide in 2011 alone to address congestion management across all access technologies.
